Healy
The townships of White Rock, Wilson
and Cheyenne voted to raise a $1600 bond for the Denver, Memphis
and Atlantic Railroad Company in February 1887. By May, the railroad
was building tracks five mile east of the White Rock store, and
eventually the railroad had set up stations in Cheyenne Township
(Healy), Wilson Township (Shields), and White Rock Township (Dennis).
The last town set up along the Missouri
Pacific Railroad in the county was platted on August 20, 1887.
Named for an official of the railroad, its post office was established
on August 29, 1887. Healy soon became a bustling town with a general
store, a boarding house, and a blacksmith shop among its businesses.
By 1910, Healy's population was 174. It remains a vital part of
Lane County today.
The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.
Sources
"A Historical Record of
Lane County, Founded June 3, 1886." Dighton, KS: Lane County
Historical Society, 1961.
Stanley, Ellen May. "Early
Lane County History: 12,000 B.C.-A.D. 1884". Newton, KS:
Mennonite Press, 1993.
Stanley, Ellen May. "Early
Lane County Development". Newton, KS: Mennonite Press, 1999.
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